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10, 2019, Tatyana Rybalchenko, who worked as a nurse during the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan between 1986 and 1988, holds a photo of her taken in June 1986 in Kabul, Afghanistan, during her interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia.less
In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb.
In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb.
HeadlineFeb 14, 2019This comes as new data from the Pentagon show 2018 saw the U.drop more bombs on Afghanistan than in any other year in at least a decade.
HeadlineFeb 11, 2019Acting U.and the Taliban and as several violent attacks have shaken the country in recent weeks.
S.Pat Shanahan, the recently installed acting secretary of defense, said he has no orders to reduce the U.
S.He touted "constructive talks" the U.
HeadlineFeb 01, 2019Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell advanced a measure Thursday opposing the withdrawal of U.troops from Syria and Afghanistan, in a rare challenge to President Trump.
HeadlineJan 22, 2019In Afghanistan, Taliban fighters killed dozens of security forces at a military intelligence base in Wardak province Monday.Some reports put the number of dead as high as 100.
7, 2013, file photo retired Gen.Stanley McChrystal reacts during an interview with The Associated Press in New York.
20, 2018 file photo, a woman poses for a picture, taken by an election official, before casting her vote in the Parliamentary election, in Kabul, Afghanistan.More time is needed to verify voter lists and train staff on a biometric identification system designed to reduce fraud, said Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi, deputy spokesman for the Independent Election Commission.
Also on Thursday, Trump resisted pressure to stand down from a decision to withdraw U.troops from Syria, made plans to pull American forces out of Afghanistan and pushed the U.
But, Kym Marsh, 42, and her boyfriend Scott Ratcliff, 30, are facing six months apart in 2019, as the Army Major is reportedly set to return to Afghanistan for duty in the Parachute Regiment.Despite the long-distance looming, the Coronation Street star, 42, was resolute in her belief that their relationship will survive the strain.
KABUL, Afghanistan – The U.The military’s statement says the incident happened on Thursday and is being investigated.
military says three American service members have been killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province.The military says three other service members were wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated on Tuesday near the city of Ghazni, the provincial capital.
The Utah National Guard has identified the service member killed as a member of the Guard.Cox wrote on his Facebook page that Taylor, 39, has been killed.
In Afghanistan, voters turned out in large numbers to vote in the country’s parliamentary elections over the weekend amid violence and deadly attacks.An Afghan official said that 27 people were killed and 100 wounded across the country on Election Day, including at least 18 people killed by a suicide bomber Saturday as they waited to cast ballots.
Despite attacks that killed 50, including many children, roughly 4 million Afghans out of 8.In southern Kandahar province, voting is to take place next Saturday, after polls there were postponed for a week following an attack that killed two senior Afghan officials, including the powerful provincial police chief, Gen Abdul Raziq.
Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Smiley, was confirmed as one of two Americans wounded in Thursday's attack that killed the police chief of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a spokeswoman for the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said.Jeffrey Smiley was wounded during a recent insider attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province,” a spokeswoman for the NATO-led force said in an emailed statement.
nationals were wounded on Thursday in a shooting at the residence of the governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province.-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said in the written statement.
Afghan officials say at least five civilians were killed when in a bomb exploded during a wedding ceremony in eastern Logar province.Shah Poor Ahmadzai, the provincial police chief’s spokesman, says seven others were wounded in the attack late Friday, which took place in Mohammad Agha district.
Ambassador in Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Pakistan from neighboring Afghanistan.Safe havens Washington and Kabul have both repeatedly accused Pakistan of providing safe havens for Taliban insurgents, a claim Islamabad has denied and countered with charges that its own insurgents have found sanctuary in Afghanistan.